Sacrificing everything for one's craft is something some people can't help. They can't help themselves. They must do it. They're driven to do it.

Legend adheres to artists whose deaths seem the corollaries of their works.

Jack Kerouac did what he most wanted to do. He wrote great prose. He became the writer he wanted to be.

Rebels defy the rules of society, risking everything to retain their humanity. If the world Atwood depicts is chilling, if 'God is losing,' the only hope for optimism is a vision that includes the inevitability of human struggle against the prevailing order.

media saturation is probably very destructive to art. New movements get overexposed and exhausted before they have a chance to grow, and they turn to ashes in a short time. Some degree of time and obscurity is often very necessary to artists.

Sacrificing everything for one's craft is something some people can't help. They can't help themselves. They must do it. They're driven to do it.

I think even celebrities deserve their privacy. I really do. It's sort of a hideous spectacle, the public feeding on all this information.